I’ve always been anti-MAHA, and always thought of JFK, Jr as a nutjob, and until recently I have found Ivan Illich’s 1975 book Medical Nemesis annoyingly over-the-top. However, after …
I have been alternating between Gar Alperovitz’s The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and David Halberstam’s The Best and the Brightest, both excellent books, well-written and even-handed. …
I have begun to really enjoy writing in Markdown. I’m trying to teach myself to use the mouse less and the keyboard more.
I’m finding the new changes to Readwise Reader a real game changer for me. Being able to buy ebooks through Readwise is huge, and being able to upload epubs to the Reader makes a real difference to me. I scan a lot of books, especially academic out-of-print ones, and I like not having to send them to Amazon in order to have my highlights collected on Readwise.
“The prophet engages in futuring fantasy. The prophet does not ask if the vision can be implemented, for questions of implementation are of no consequence until the vision can be imagined. The imagination must come before the implementation.”
Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination
Dear Subscribers: After a lot of thought (some might call it dithering), I’ve decided to leave Substack. (More on my reasons later, but suffice to say I’ve never been entirely comfortable here.) …
“Courage in work does not usually mean fighting wolves. This is unfortunate but survivable. It means asking the question when everyone else is pretending to understand. It means saying the plan is …
“Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.”
Sebastian Junger, Tribe
I’ve begun reading The Subversive Art of a Classical Education by Michael S. Rose and Revising Prose by Richard A. Langham, and as a result, after only two chapters in each book, my patience …